Narukoten Shrine

This area used to be called Kashiwagi Village Naruko, and the area was originally enshrined in the Great Shrine (the god Amaterasu), and there was a pure sanctuary with pine and oak trees. In the third year of Enki (903) in the Heian period, the vassals Saeki and Saimiya, who received the news of the death of Prince Sugawara Michishin in Dazaifu in Kyushu, were deeply grieved, admired his virtue, and brought back to Kashiwagi Village a statue carved during the prince's lifetime from Luoyang (Heian-kyo). Then, this area was made the sanctuary of Sugako Shrine and enshrined as the god of peace and literature, and our company was established. After that, the land of Kashiwagi Naruko was given to the Kasuga Bureau by the third Tokugawa shogun, Prince Iemitsu, and the shrine was built as Tenmanten Shrine at the request of the bureau. In the 27th year of the Meiji era, it was renamed Naruko Shrine, and in the third year of the Showa era, it was renamed Naruko Tenjinja Shrine. After that, it was destroyed by fire in the war, rebuilt in Showa 41, etc., and was built in Heisei 26.